Explore how preserved plant collections and living displays in botanical gardens assist researchers and students in identifying and studying plant diversity.
The International Code for Botanical Nomenclature provides agreed principles and criteria for assigning scientific names to plants.
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A species is a group of individual organisms with fundamental similarities. Distinct morphological differences are used to distinguish one closely related species from another.
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The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature provides internationally accepted principles for assigning scientific names to animals.
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Nomenclature is possible only when the organism has been correctly described and the organism to which the name is attached is known. This process is identification.
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Modern taxonomic studies use external and internal structure, cell structure, developmental processes and ecological information.
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The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature provides internationally accepted principles for assigning scientific names to animals.
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The generic name is written first and begins with a capital letter. The specific epithet follows it and begins with a small letter. Both words are italicised when printed.
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Animals possessing common features such as a notochord and a dorsal hollow neural system are placed in phylum Chordata.
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A complete binomial name contains both the generic name and the specific epithet. Therefore, tuberosum alone is not the complete biological name; the correct name is Solanum tuberosum.
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The earliest classifications were based on the usefulness of organisms to humans, especially as sources of food, clothing and shelter.
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Felidae and Canidae are related families included in the order Carnivora. An order is an assemblage of families that share a few similar characters.
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Animals such as fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are placed in Chordata based on common features such as a notochord and a dorsal hollow neural system.
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